NEIBA Bestseller List

 NEIBA Bestsellers for October 14, 2026

Based on sales for the week ending Sunday, October 11th, 2026  

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HARDCOVER FICTION

1. The Pirate Queen
Ariel Lawhon, Doubleday, $32.00, 9780385550345
2. Threshing Day (Wing and Claw Collection) (The Empyrean)
Rebecca Yarros, Entangled: Red Tower Books, $24.99, 9781682818084
3. American Hagwon
Min Jin Lee, Cardinal, $36.00, 9781538752036
4. The Calamity Club
Kathryn Stockett, Spiegel & Grau, $35.00, 9781954118812
5. The Witch (Deluxe Edition)
Freida McFadden, Poisoned Pen Press, $29.99, 9781464249648
6. Hollow Bones
Jodi Picoult, Ballantine Books, $34.00, 9780593726259
7. Whistler
Ann Patchett, Harper, $30.00, 9780063511637
8. Exit Party
Emily St.John Mandel, Knopf, $32.00, 9780593321461
9. The French Illusion (The French Illusion Series)
John Grisham, Doubleday, $35.00, 9780385550543
10. The Disappearers
Marlon James, Riverhead Books, $32.00, 9780593717202
11. Other Worlds Than These: A Talisman Novel (The Talisman Trilogy #3)
Stephen King, Peter Straub, Scribner, $35.00, 9781668233092
12. The Things We Never Say
Elizabeth Strout, Random House, $29.00, 9798217154746
13. Yesteryear (Indies Introduce)
Caro Claire Burke, Knopf, $30.00, 9780593804216
14. Hollywood, Ending
John Green, Dutton Books, $32.00, 9780525426073
15. Mad Mabel
Sally Hepworth, St. Martin's Press, $29.00, 9781250284549

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. Blockers: Rebels in the Deep State
Michael Lewis, W. W. Norton & Company, $29.99, 9781324131656
2. The Rush: California Gold, the Civil War, and the Making of the Modern World
Nathaniel Philbrick, Viking, $38.00, 9780525562238
3. The American Way of Killing: The Invention of an Epidemic
Malcolm Gladwell, Little, Brown and Company, $34.00, 9780316603782
4. The Forest Year: Finding Hope in a World Worth Saving
Ethan Tapper, Timber Press, $28.00, 9781643266510
5. Swan Song: Diana, my sister
Charles Spencer, Penguin Press, $35.00, 9798217379743
6. Ottolenghi Simple Too: A Cookbook
Yotam Ottolenghi, Ten Speed Press, $45.00, 9781984860088
7. One Helluva Ride
Michael Douglas, Grand Central Publishing, $35.00, 9781538782224
8. End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World
Naomi Klein, Astra Taylor, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $32.00, 9780374621384
9. An Unexpected Life: A Memoir
Gloria Steinem, Random House, $30.00, 9780593978177
10. Sleeping Beauties: Why Good Ideas Go Dormant and How They Wake Up
David Byrne, Penguin Press, $36.00, 9780593655276
11. The Land and Its People: Essays
David Sedaris, Little, Brown and Company, $30.00, 9780316264839
12. London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth
Patrick Radden Keefe, Doubleday, $35.00, 9780385548533
13. Happy Snacking, Don't Die!: Foraging and Vegan Recipes with Black Forager (A Cookbook)
Alexis Nikole Nelson, S&S/Simon Element, $35.00, 9781668002544
14. American Scoundrel: Roy Cohn's Dark Journey from Joe McCarthy to Donald Trump
Kai Bird, Susan Goldmark, Scribner, $32.00, 9781668031575
15. Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage
Belle Burden, The Dial Press, $30.00, 9780593733318

TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION

1. Theo of Golden
Allen Levi, Atria Books, $20.00, 9781668236512
2. East of Eden
John Steinbeck, Penguin, $25.00, 9780142004234
3. Dungeon Crawler Carl
Matt Dinniman, Ace, $20.00, 9780593820254
4. Wild Dark Shore
Charlotte McConaghy, Flatiron Books, $18.99, 9781250828019
5. The Road to Tender Hearts
Annie Hartnett, Ballantine Books, $20.00, 9780593873465
6. The Wedding People
Alison Espach, Holt Paperbacks, $18.99, 9781250899552
7. The Women
Kristin Hannah, St. Martin's Griffin, $21.00, 9781250178640
8. Fruit Fly
Josh Silver, Crooked Lane Books, $19.99, 9798892426374
9. May We Feed the King
Rebecca Perry, Transit Books, $18.95, 9798893380620
10. I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman, Transit Books, $16.95, 9781945492600
11. The Odyssey
Homer, Emily Wilson (Transl.), Norton, $18.95, 9780393356250
12. Time of the Child: A Novel
Niall Williams, Bloomsbury Publishing, $18.99, 9781639737581
13. The God of the Woods
Liz Moore, Riverhead Books, $19.00, 9780593418925
14. The Irish Goodbye
Heather Aimee O'Neill, Holt Paperbacks, $18.99, 9781250408167
15. North Woods
Daniel Mason, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $18.00, 9780593597040

TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION

1. Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea: Journeys Through Ancient Literature
Emily Wilson, Liveright, $19.99, 9781324099406
2. Family of Spies: A World War II Story of Nazi Espionage, Betrayal, and the Secret History Behind Pearl Harbor
Christine Kuehn, Celadon Books, $18.99, 9781250344489
3. Raising Hare: A Memoir
Chloe Dalton, Vintage, $21.00, 9780593689004
4. Mother Mary Comes to Me
Arundhati Roy, Scribner, $20.00, 9781668094723
5. A Marriage at Sea (Indies Introduce)
Sophie Elmhirst, Riverhead Books, $20.00, 9780593854297
6. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly  
Anthony Bourdain, Ecco, $18.99, 9780060899226
7. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18.00, 9781984898456
8. How to Love a Forest: The Bittersweet Work of Tending a Changing World
Ethan Tapper, Broadleaf Books, $19.99, 9798341900196
9. Bread of Angels: A Memoir
Patti Smith, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $20.00, 9781101910177
10. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $22.00, 9781571313560
11. Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It
Cory Doctorow, Picador, $20.00, 9781250448194
12. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann, Vintage, $21.00, 9780307742490
13. The Salt Stones: Seasons of a Shepherd's Life
Helen Whybrow, Milkweed Editions, $20.00, 9781571311634
14. All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, William Morrow Paperbacks, $17.99, 9780060959470
15. The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI: How to Think About Artificial Intelligence—Before It's Too Late
Cory Doctorow, MCD, $18.00, 9780374621568

MASS MARKET

1. Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $12.00, 9780451526342
2. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $12.00, 9780451524935
3. A Game of Thrones
George R.R. Martin, Random House Worlds, $9.99, 9780553593716
4. Lord of the Flies
William Golding, Penguin, $13.00, 9780399501487
5. The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger, Little, Brown, $9.99, 9780316769488
6. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou, Ballantine, $9.99, 9780345514400
7. The Left Hand of Darkness
Ursula K. Le Guin, Ace, $10.99, 9780441478125
8. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams, Del Rey, $9.99, 9780345391803
9. Interview with the Vampire
Anne Rice, Ballantine, $12.99, 9780345337665
10. Macbeth
William Shakespeare, Simon & Schuster, $9.99, 9781451694727

CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED

1. Room on the Broom 
Julia Donaldson, Axel Scheffler (Illus.), Dial Books, $9.99, 9780593110409
2. Gruffalo Granny
Julia Donaldson, Axel Scheffler (Illus.), Dial Books, $19.99, 9798217238736
3. The Skeleton and the Cat
Brandon James Scott, HarperCollins, $19.99, 9780063455887
4. Mouse Goes to the Mountains: A Hike Through Nature (Mouse’s Adventures)
Alice Melvin, Thames & Hudson, $19.95, 9780500653951
5. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617
6. Little Blue Truck Lost and Found
Alice Schertle, Jill McElmurry (Illus.), Clarion Books, $19.99, 9780063436121
7. Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?: Stamped Edges Special Edition
Bill Martin, Jr., Eric Carle (Illus.), Henry Holt and Co. BYR, $10.99, 9781250445506
8. The Pumpkin Thief (The Leaf Thief)
Alice Hemming, Nicola Slater (Illus.), Sourcebooks Jabberwocky, $18.99, 9781464268076
9. Millie Fleur's Pumpkin Problem
Christy Mandin, Orchard Books, $14.99, 9798225041335
10. Little Blue Truck's Halloween
Alice Schertle, Jill McElmurry (Illus.), Clarion Books, $13.99, 9780544772533

CHILDREN'S SERIES TITLES

1. Baby-sitters on Board!: A Graphic Novel (The Baby-sitters Club Super Special #1)
Raina Telgemeier (Illus.), Graphix, $16.99, 9781546174363
2. Rowley Jefferson’s Awesome Friendly Spooky Stories 2: From the Creator of Diary of a Wimpy Kid (The Awesome Friendly Kid Series)
Jeff Kinney, Amulet Books, $15.99, 9781419788109
3. Spy School Goes East
Stuart Gibbs, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9781665986717
4. Karen's New Year: A Graphic Novel (Baby-sitters Little Sister #13) (Baby-Sitters Little Sister Graphix)
DK Yingst (Illus.), Ann M. Martin, Graphix, $14.99, 9781546135401
5. The Neverfear (Impossible Creatures #3)
Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Knopf Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780593809945
6. Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games)
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic Press, $17.99, 9781546171607
7. Warriors Graphic Novel: The New Prophecy, Part One of Three
Erin Hunter, Gibson Twist, Sammy Savos (Illus.), HarperAlley, $15.99, 9780063450882
8. The Princess in Black and the Trick-or-Treating Trouble
Shannon Hale, Dean Hale, LeUyen Pham (Illus.), Candlewick, $16.99, 9781536234107
9. Big Nate: Curse of the Puffy Shorts
Lincoln Peirce, Andrews McMeel Publishing, $12.99, 9798881602437
10. The Jungle of Carabanana (The Millicent Quibb School of Etiquette for Young Ladies of Mad Science #3)
Kate McKinnon, Alvina Ling Books, $17.99, 9780316555814

EARLY & MIDDLE GRADE

1. Camp Half-Blood: From the World of Percy Jackson: The Wild Zone
Rick Riordan, Annabelle Oh, Random House Books for Young Readers, $20.99, 9798217445981
2. Building 903
Lois Lowry, Clarion Books, $19.99, 9780063515109
3. A Raven of the Rainforest (A Voice of the Wilderness Novel #5)
Rosanne Parry, Howard Gray (Illus.), Greenwillow Books, $18.99, 9780063424319
4. Scholastic Book of World Records 2027
Scholastic, Scholastic Inc., $14.99, 9798225067977
5. The One and Only Bob
Katherine Applegate, Patricia Castelao (Illus.), Storytide, $10.99, 9780062991324
6. The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest (Newbery Honor Award Winner)
Aubrey Hartman, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780316575737
7. Charlotte's Web
E.B. White, HarperCollins, $10.99, 9780064400558
8. Baseball Superstars 2027 (Sports Superstars with baseball eraser)
Grant Brisbee, Scholastic Inc., $10.99, 9798225042639
9. The New Girl: First Crush: A Graphic Novel 
Cassandra Calin, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338762488
10. Tiddly and Winks: Don’t Be Scared (My First I Can Read)
R.L. Stine, Marc Brown (Illus.), HarperCollins, $5.99, 9780063482944

YOUNG ADULT

1. Trust Fall
Lynn Painter, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $21.99, 9798347100217
2. The Sixth Faction Deluxe Limited Edition (A New Divergent Series #1)
Veronica Roth, HarperCollins, $25.99, 9780063462540
3. Marionetta, Volume 1
Míriam Bonastre Tur, Ink Pop, $18.99, 9798217032846
4. Fake Skating
Lynn Painter, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $13.99, 9781665921275
5. The Iliad: A Graphic Novel
Gareth Hinds, Candlewick, $19.99, 9780763696634
6. The Pools
E. Lockhart, Delacorte Press, $20.99, 9780593904121
7. The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Special Edition)
Stephen Chbosky, Simon Pulse, $15.99, 9781665982412
8. Stealing Saint Nick: A Legendary Corpse, a Notorious Theft, and the Stories that Shape the World
M.T. Anderson, Dutton Books for Young Readers, $20.99, 9780593699546
9. Anger Is Only a Shadow
Elizabeth Acevedo, Quill Tree Books, $19.99, 9780062882790
10. Our Strange Duet
Erin A. Craig, Delacorte Press, $24.99, 9798217124183